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Identifying feature

Open floor plan

A layout in which kitchen, dining and living areas share one room without dividing walls. It appeared in Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie houses and spread in American homes after World War II.

a sign of these styles

Fallingwater, Stewart Township, Pennsylvania: an example of Organic Architecture Organic Architecture c. 1930–present Buildings fitted to their site in local stone and concrete, with cantilevered terraces and curved or domed forms.

often seen with

Cantilever A beam, floor or part of a building that projects beyond its support and is anchored at only one end. Clerestory window A row of windows high on a wall, above eye level, often above a lower adjoining roof. Deep eave overhang Roof edges, called eaves, that extend well beyond the walls. Dome A rounded roof shaped as half a sphere, often raised on a drum (a circular wall). Flat roof A roof that is level or nearly level, often edged by a low wall called a parapet. Skylight A window set into a roof to admit daylight to the room below, either flat or raised as a dome or pyramid.